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Today, the Sherit Hapleita has an ideology of its own—this despite the fact that in its outlook on life, in its politics, and its culture, the group is no more unified and no less divided than other…
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Samuel Gringauz
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Allied-occupied Germany (Germany)
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1947
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Sivan, 5529 Livorno [1769]
In the name of G-d, the G-d of mercy!
In such measure as light exceeds darkness, such is the superiority of the people of this country over the people of Spain…
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Isaac Euchel
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
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1790
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A medieval rabbi barely escapes from a blood libel accusation at his own Seder table in this prescient nineteenth-century story by the famous German Romantic poet Heinrich Heine.
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Heinrich Heine
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
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ca. 1824
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For it is not against me that these men have sinned, for what am I and what is my life? My days have passed like a transient shadow, and fly away as does a dream—like a dream upon…
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Jonathan Eybeschütz
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Altona, Denmark (Altona, Germany)
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1755
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Has he had the temerity to speak perversely against the foundations of the faith and of the Torah, and mocked the words of our sages of blessed memory recorded in the Mishnah and the Gemara, or has he…
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Saul Berlin
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
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1784
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Now in regard to your inquiry as to my view on the question of the halakhic status of the odor of leavened substances on Passover, as there are some authorities who maintain that odor is…
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Saul Berlin
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1793
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Unknown
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Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (Hamburg, Germany)
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1572
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Pinchas (Phineas) ben Avraham Halevi
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Halberstadt, Holy Roman Empire (Halbe Metze, Germany)
Date:
1716
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This decorated manuscript of the prayers for a circumcision ceremony was owned by one Joseph ben Samuel. On its title page (not shown) is an unidentified coat of arms decorated with the Order of the…
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Uri Fayvesh Segal
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Altona, Denmark (Altona, Germany)
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1750
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Sylvia Plachy
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Dachau, West Germany (Dachau, Germany)
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1985